St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-06

hOfiiOIl hlC UlAClCHG SOCS NItllOub SdN-
ing. But in male and female there are
qualities of the highest character and
nObleSt impulses, and vice versatile
weakest, most reckless and ignoble
The effect of good and evil influence
upon both men and women is seen
daily. The fate of an ambitious, indus
trious, honorable, proud and talented
man is often deplOred, When through
some strange freak of fancy it is found
that he has made mistake in the Selec-
ton of his wife; and that this puerile
fault-hnding. indOlent. eXacting, fretful,
careless, bysterical creature whom he
takes ''for better, for worse" proves to
he his evil genius instead of his good
angel. AT every turn in the high road
to success she is the Stumbling-block.
over which he finally falls.
On the other hand, how often have
we looked on with fearful eyes to see
some young woman of rare talent and
superb qualities of head and heart I'M
equally yOked with man she has prom
iSed Ito honor and to obey" when it is
evident to all but her, blinded as she is
by Cupid'S darts, that he is unworthy of
such woman, and that, brave as she
may be, she can hardly awaken his slug
giSh ambition, stimulate his laggard
energies. or arouse his morbid impulses
to high and noble purposes! Sometimes
victory crowns the patient, loving eff
forts of the wife, but, unhappily, it
too often ends in the failure of two lives
instead of one.
WOMAN IN POLITICS.
In the agitation and discussion of the
great political questions in American
politics woman has ever had her say,
the masculine leaders recognizing her
prove SIS and the force of her warfare
upon evil principles and unhOly doing.
Her influence has ever been for the ele-
Walton of the standard of human gov
eminent and mankind. No such in
trigueS as those which characterized
the political influence of woman in mon
archlcal governments have ever been in
timated against the women of
America who have been conspicuous
in public affairs. Here women openly
eSpOuSe anu fearlesSly advocate the
causes they believe to be right, entering
with enthusiasm and determination into
the struggle for their supremacy. Dis
daining the employment of the arts and
iptrigues that have made famous the
names of the Duchess de LOngueville,
Nine. de ChevreuSe, Princess Palatina,
Nine. de Montbaz0n and many others,
our cOuntryWOmen have stood upon a
higher plain of virtue and principle, and
have by their intelligence and sterling
character steadily widened the sphere
of wOman'S influence and power, Off
Gals, legislative and executive, paying
them the willing tribute of respect and
consideration, adopting much that
women have suggested for the better
ment of the nation and the advance
ment of the age.
Sometimes women have made mis-
takes, and in their zeal for the adoption
of their convictions have overStepped
their prerOgative and made their own
sex blush for the indelicacy of their
SiSter-women.
But there must be ''hewers of wood
and drawers of water" and ''maSOnS to
build" or no great enterprise would
succeed. These pioneers in the field of
woman'S sphere have done their work,
and those who come after them can take
up the work with more of policy and
polish.
MEMS COWARDICE.
1t is a painful reflection that the first
instance of wOman'S influence over man
was to his undOing, and that the long
train of calamitieS and curses that have
come down from the Garden of Eden
are charged to the:frst woman that was
given to man. The daughters of Mother
Eve have never been able to evade them
or to be held guiltlesS. In far too many
instances it is said in eXtenuation of
mems crimes, "There is woman in the
case" much after the fashion of Adams
excuse to the Lord: ''She tempted and
| did eat" This smaekS strongly of
what gallant men call cowardice, and
the Lord, without accepting Adams eX-
cuSe, put the curse upon both. Hence,
they went from Paradise equally under
the ban of his displeasure, for their
Joint disobedience. Their descendants,
male and female, have shared alike in
the inheritance of earning their bread by
the sweat of their faces.
Our knOledge of the domestic life of
the original families of the earth is very
meager, and much that is given as fact
is really conjecture, the earliest form of
government being patriarchal, with
each head of family ruling absolutely
over the other members until the male
families of their own. The females
were held almost iii bondage, the father
often selling his daughters in marriage
to suit his convenience. Out of this
state of society grew alliances and fac
tons, and consequently wars, neceSSi-
tating combinations and selections of
chi eftainS, which method finally re-
solved itself into kingly power. As a
natural sequence war was the rule and
not the exception.
The increasing population required
the seeking of new homes, and migTa-
tons by whole families or tribes, the
women bearing their part in the bur-
dens of these wanderings and hardShipS.
WoMAN's COURAGE AND ENDURANCE.
History and tradition furnish remark
able instances OF wOman's courage and
endurance, in no sense carrying out the
theory of her weakness.
That these women exercised great in
fiuence over their warrior fathers,
brothers and husbands is constantly
shown. and while the hardships they
endured and the association with strife
and ferocity unavOidably made them
little better than savageS. their fidelity
to their husbands and their children,
their perfect chastity, cannot be too
much admired. The revolving specta-
Gle of the beautiful Chiamara bearing
the head Of the centurion, wrapped in
the skirt of her robe, to her husband on
Joining him after her escape from cap
tiyity. loses much of its horror when we
remember it was in defense of her vir-
tue that she caused the centuriOn'S as
sasSination and obtained her liberty.
In the different stages of society from
the leaving of the Garden of Eden until
the birth of our Savior wOman'S inf1u-
ence went up and down in the scale of
human affairs. But when Divinity was
born of woman the stronger of creation
began to give to the weaker conSidera-
ton much beyond her accustomed
measure. Thus emancipated from the
bondage and tyranny of barbarism, she
has steadily climbed the ladder of
equality, until in our day she reigns SUI
preme in the heart and respect of man.
Enjoying all the privileges of education
and an equal chance in ambitions field,
the gates of colleges, universities and
professions ever swing outward for her
admission. That she has done we'll and
kept pace with the men of our times
noOp can DENY RlIt after all fine fOun-